16 Facts About Isabella Carrie

Isabella Scrimgeour Carrie was a Scottish suffragette and schoolteacher.

Isabella Carrie became a suffragette after bouncers threw her out of a meeting where Winston Churchill was speaking.

Isabella Carrie was said to have remarked, "I did not come to the meeting as a suffragette, but I am now".

Isabella Carrie attended school locally and at the age of fourteen she became a pupil-teacher.

Isabella Carrie moved to Edinburgh where she attended the Church of Scotland Training College.

Isabella Carrie then taught in Fife and Arbroath but her health declined.

Isabella Carrie was teaching in Dundee in 1908 when the suffragettes were beginning to make headlines.

Isabella Carrie came to be associated with the Women's Social and Political Union in an unusual way.

Isabella Carrie had gone to hear Winston Churchill speak and he was a well known opposer of women having the vote.

Isabella Carrie got up to ask a question on this subject and she was thrown out of the hall.

Isabella Carrie was asked to keep her visitors' identities secret and she kept her word.

Isabella Carrie did not have good health and in 1938 she retired and decided to spend her money on a trip around the world as she felt that death was near.

Isabella Carrie got as far as New York before war broke out.

Isabella Carrie did not fully reveal her suffragette past until 1976, as she was concerned that she may still be at risk of imprisonment.

Isabella Carrie was to live until she was over 100 years old.

Isabella Carrie died in a nursing home on 29 November 1981 in Broughty Ferry.